Tag: Slavery
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Post-slavery and the invisibility of female (e)motions in migration, displacement and refugee studies
In this post, Lotte Pelckmans presents the findings of her chapter in the anthology “Invisibility in African Displacements”, exploring the ways in which women with slave status ‘vote with their feet’ by fleeing their arranged marriages and other forms of exploitation in the Niger-Nigeria borderlands. Through the notion of fugitive emplacements, she analyses how her…